Madhura is co-founder and VP product at Platform9. Having experienced industry shifts across virtualization, IaaS and containerization; Madhura believes that harnessing open-source is critical to the future of edge and hybrid cloud environments.

At Platform9, Madhura has overseen the development of products such as Managed OpenStack, Managed Kubernetes, Managed Observability and most recently, the freemium tier for Managed Kubernetes.

Before founding Platform9, Madhura was an engineer at VMware, where she led VMware vSphere’s transformation into a policy driven product suite.

Madhura holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in databases and distributed systems.